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Spec. Cuar. Younger parts hairy: leaves linear, oblong, acit- 
minate at the base, hairy underneath: stipules hirsute: calyx 5-furs 
rowed about the middle, slightly hairy : flowers white, tinged with 
ted. 
Chittagong, flowering in the cold season. This species yields a 
great quantity of good oil. 
(4) D. wncanus. (Roxb) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 614. 
Srec. Cuar. All the younger parts hairy: leaves ovate, some- 
what tapering at the base, softly villous: racemes axillary, half 
the length of the leaves: calyx 5-angled about the middle. 
Chittagong, flowering'in November. This species furnishes the 
largest proportion of the best sort of wood oil. Roxburgh mentions 
-another species, D. tuberculatus, also a native of Chittagong, which 
‘blossoms at the beginning of the hot season. 
GENUS IV. HOPEA. 
Polyandria Momogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after Dr. John Hope, Professor of Botany in 
Edinburgh. 
Gen. Cuar. Trees, with entire leaves: flowers secund and 
nearly sessile on the branches of the panicle: sepals 5, two or three 
of them afterwards enlarged into wings: corolla of one piece, with 
a campanulate tube: petals oblique, linear, oblong, spreading, twist- 
ed: filaments 10, alternately simple and bifid: anthers 15, with 
bristles at the apex: ovary 3-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in 
each cell. 
(1) H. Wiewtrana. ( Wail.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 85. 
Engrav. Wight’s Il. I. t. 37. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous: 2 sepals expands 
ing into wings, oblong, obtuse: capsule oblong-ovate, acute: flows 
ers small, yellow, fragrant. 
Peninsula. Travancore. 
(2) H. oporata. (Roxd.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. IT. p. 609. 
sae ee Leaves ovate-oblong, with a hollow gland in the 
axils of the large veins: two sepals enlarging into wings: icl 
terminal: flowers small, pale yellow, font. maBEY Dersles 
Chittagong, flowering in March, 
